In our modern world, we are surrounded by technology and more and more every day objects now include some built-in computer system. Such objects are called embedded systems and we can define an embedded system as follows: As opposed to…
The first cryptic crosswords originated from the United Kingdom and appeared in the mid 1920’s. A cryptic crossword is a type of crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle including anagrams, acronyms, synonyms, homophones and other wordplays.…
Before completing this quiz, we invite you to revisit the main Big O Notations used to describe the time complexity and space complexity of an algorithm.. The main Big O Notations this quiz will focus on are: Take the Quiz!…
If you have reached this page, you have probably already started to learn to code using a high-level programming language such as Python, JavaScript, C, php or Ruby. But what does “learning a new programming language” involve? Learning a programming…
A binary watch uses 18 LEDs to give the HH:MM:SS time using three binary numbers each consisting of 6 bits. The following diagram can help you understand how to work out the time displayed on a binary watch: Using the…
Before completing this task, you will need to revisit the main characteristics of the Von Neumann Processor Architecture. You task is to write a description in your books or on the space provided below to describe, in your own words,…
Computer programs are a set of step-by-step instructions used to teach the computer how to complete a task. Computer programs are written using a specific programming language. Nowadays, most programmers would write code using a high-level programming language such as…
John Von Neumann (1903-1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist and a founding figure in computer science, with significant contributions to computing hardware design. The Von Neumann architecture refers to a processor architecture which has access to a…
To celebrate the start of the Winter, we have asked our Artificial Intelligence “AI-101” to generate a poem about the cold winter weather. The AI has generated the following poem which consists of a list of numbers! We believe the…
The aim of this online activity is to sort a set of 8 playing cards randomly picked from a deck of cards based on the following rules: The cards need to be sorted in ascending order of their values. For…